As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 253 Unforeseen circumstances
"The unexpected events in London have serious implications for our global strategy.

Although it has gained unimaginable traffic in a short period of time, all the focus of this traffic is on magic.

At present, no one seems to continue to pay attention to our new generation of brain-computer connected VR products.

The advertising campaign throughout the Europa League fell far short of expectations.

Even if a global product launch is held again in the short term, it will not achieve the desired effect."

Some people may think that such a global breaking event happening at a press conference is a good thing as it can attract the attention of the whole world.

In fact, this kind of incident needs to be discussed based on specific circumstances. The most important thing is whether the focus of the incident can be converted into consumers' purchasing desire.

It is true that the Magic Explosion Point event was held at the press conference of Ke Chuang Future, but the problem is that potential consumers will not have the desire to buy brain-computer connected VR after seeing the news.

For a consumer electronics product like brain-computer connection VR, which has a monopoly nature, it does not need this kind of popularity.

It only needs a standard press conference to let its previous and potential users know about the technological innovations of the new generation of brain-computer connected VR.

It is enough to achieve this level.

Just like the previous generations of iPhones, it has already shown an unstoppable trend around the world and will not do anything weird to attract unnecessary attention.

iPhone has never tied its products to a certain label. In the early days, Dami wanted to emerge as a dark horse and tied its products to the label of cost-effectiveness.

Benchmark companies in the industry must adopt the right approach rather than unconventional ones, and they will only use unconventional approaches when they want to achieve a certain goal quickly.

After listening to the report from his subordinate executives, Li Miaomiao said, "Send another executive to London to comfort the injured and express condolences to Old Song."

"In addition, each audience member at the London launch event will be given a voucher worth 100 euros. They can redeem it with their tickets."

"The press conference and publicity will be put on hold for now. Once this magical incident has been dealt with, we will have the relevant departments move forward with marketing efforts."

"This is just a matter of chance. Don't put too much psychological pressure on Lao Song. His performance this time is already very good."

When faced with the emergency at the London press conference, Song Zhiwen did not choose to run away or hide. Instead, he stood on the stage and used the microphone to let all the audience leave in an orderly manner.

His bravery and persistence helped Science and Technology Future gain unanimous praise on social media in England.

"The executives of Sinovation Biotech are good people who did not choose to run away under that situation.

If it were our executives, they would have disappeared long ago.”

"There's no need to flatter that Chinese guy. He just did what he was supposed to do."

For comments like this one from a reasonable person, the following is a unanimous condemnation:

"Are you sure? Can you stay calm when a monster nearly three meters tall is rushing towards you?
And this is not his job. He has no obligation to ensure the safety of the audience. This job is what the security personnel at the venue need to do on that day.

The Chinese are not a reason for you to belittle him."

"Please don't bring your narrow-minded zzzy thinking to anything."

Chinese people have always claimed to be a model minority, but whether this label is good or bad is a matter of opinion.

The people abroad who like to attack China and Chinese companies the most are Chinese people of Chinese descent and some Chinese people who are active on the Internet.

The previous comment was made by a Chinese person.

When Ke Chuang Future's brain-computer connected VR was launched, no foreign users raised any security-related questions.

Even foreign governments only require that data be stored in their own data centers.

Instead, it was the Chinese who were clamoring that Kechuang Future would store foreign brain neural data for certain military purposes, and many of them wrote to the White House requesting an investigation into the matter.

"Okay, I'll arrange these things as soon as possible."

"Well, the original plan to open the purchase at 10 a.m. London time today remains unchanged. We will first try to test the waters in relevant professional forums.

For example, in places like game forums and local life forums, you can do some targeted marketing.

In addition, the advertising and marketing of VR platforms will continue as planned, but the traffic promotion on social media such as YouTube, Google, FB, and INS will be stopped. "

Buying traffic on social media for promotion is a normal operation, and all manufacturers will buy it.

This is also the source of profit on which these Internet giants rely for their survival.

Even for Tencent, which is famous for its games, advertising business revenue accounts for roughly one-third of its total revenue.

Not to mention foreign companies like Google and FB.

Among them, FB is considering going all in on the metaverse because of its declining advertising revenue over the years.

However, they did not expect that scientific and technological creatures would enter the field of metaverse, which resulted in them having no advantages in this field.

The metaverse field, which was originally placed with great hope, is no longer favored by the capital market due to the existence of Science and Technology Future.

Even though it reached a strategic cooperation agreement with Neuralink, the capital market still cast a vote of no confidence in FB with its funds.

Compared to its peak market value of one trillion US dollars, FB's market value is now less than one-third of its peak.

After finishing the meeting with senior executives, Li Miaomiao went to the Suzhou R&D Center.

There is a wizard around me, and when encountering such a global gossip event, how can I not consult Zheng Li's opinion?

Indeed, there is no one in the entire Blue Star who knows this matter better than Zheng Li. The magic net was created by him.

If you want, it's not impossible to revive the spiritual energy in Gusu.

“Have you read the meeting minutes and the attached video?
It's so exaggerated. A press conference turned into a filming site for a fantasy movie.

This is still in London.

Fortunately, there were no casualties and Song Zhiwen was lucky enough to be hit by several bullets.

If we had known we shouldn't have held the press conference in London, we should have chosen Munich as the venue.

Hua Wei had held a press conference in Munich before, so there was a ready-made exhibition organizer who was familiar with the Chinese market, so we could just contact them directly.

If you go to Munich, this won't happen.

In addition, our branch in England reported back today that the English police have not made any progress on this matter.

I knew it was nonsense as soon as I heard it. Even if they found the wizard who summoned the water element, would they announce his name?
It must have been handled privately, and they are dragging us along.

Why do I have a feeling that the world is going to be in chaos? "

Li Miaomiao said a lot of things to express her frustration, and as a result, more than 10 million euros were wasted.

More than 10 million euros is just a small amount of money for Ke Chuang Future, and the subsequent impact may be even more serious.

The overseas promotion of the second-generation brain-computer connected VR will be affected to a certain extent.

Zheng Li didn't care too much, "It's inevitable that this will happen."

"Even if we had held the show in Munich, the events in London would have happened in a similar way and the show would have been affected."

Li Miaomiao nodded and said, "That's right, I don't know who is behind this.

It can’t be Merlin.”

Zheng Li shook his head and said, "No."

Li Miaomiao asked: "Is water element magic difficult to achieve?"

"Is this magic difficult? Can you cast similar magic?" Zheng Li has absolute control over the research and development center of Ke Chuang Biotechnology. He can ensure that everything that happens in this building will not be spread out.

China has set up some small tricks, and the images obtained are all virtual.

Or maybe those images have been processed.

Only with absolute confidence would Zheng Li appropriately demonstrate some magic in front of Li Miaomiao.

As soon as Li Miaomiao finished speaking, the tea in the cups in front of them flowed out and floated in the air.

It is then guided to the table and first laid out flat on the table in an irregular flat shape.

Then it slowly rises and turns into a classic water element shape.

The water elemental in London is just a humanoid monster made of water, which is very different from the water elemental in Warcraft.

However, the water elements gathered by Zheng Li can be said to be a pixel-level imitation.

Except for the lack of wrist guards on the arms, they are exactly the same.

Li Miaomiao opened her mouth wide, "Wow! That's amazing."

The evil taste in Zheng Li's heart burst out, and he let the water element on the table gather a water arrow in his hand, and then shot it towards Li Miaomiao's face.

"Open your mouth."

The tea that was originally in the cup entered her mouth in the form of a water arrow.

"How about it? This is your first time drinking tea this way."

Li Miaomiao rolled his eyes at him and said, "Stop using magic to bully me here!"

"When I learn magic, I will give you one too."

Zheng Li let the water element on the table shoot a mouthful of tea into his mouth, "Not bad."

"Water Elemental is a very basic spell, but it is still difficult to summon a water element of that size."

If the mages on Blue Star heard this, they would be speechless. How come we don’t know such a basic spell?

After listening to this, Li Miaomiao asked: "Can you tell who the murderer is by looking at the video footage at the scene?"

Zheng Li shook his head and said, "No, first of all, there are too many people in the audience, and I can't read lips."

"Secondly, magic doesn't require spells. And that's not something we need to consider."

"Even if we find out who the murderer is, will England let us take him away?"

Zheng Li waved his hand, and the water element on the table returned to the cup.

"That's true. I'm still curious about the mechanism of magic. Why can't ordinary people master magic? Why can't they use magic after being injected with magic brain?"

"What is the essence of the magic brain?" Li Miaomiao asked curiously.

After thinking for a moment, Zheng Li explained:
“Simply put, the way ordinary people affect the material world is through their bodies and minds.

For example, if you want to drink water, just lift the cup and pour it into your mouth.

The idea is that with just a glance from you, the waiter next to you will understand what you mean and will pour the water for you or even feed it into your mouth.

You don’t need to use your body to achieve your goals.

But all of these require a medium. Your body or someone else's body is the medium through which you influence the material world.

The magic brain is also a medium that allows humans to directly influence the material world through thoughts.

The essence of magic is to connect your consciousness with the material world.

As for the technical concepts, I don’t know, and I can’t explain it to you in words.”

Li Miaomiao: "I roughly understand it."

"Ordinary people don't have organs that can do this. The demon brain is equivalent to a similar organ."

"It's just like ordinary people need eyes to see the images of the outside world. Without eyes, no matter how hard they try, they can't see."

"The magic brain is the spellcasting organ of ordinary people."

"I still find it amazing. Don't similar organs need to be adapted? How did Merlin do it?"

"Of course, I'm not asking you, I'm just curious."

"After the emergence of magic, there are more unknown things."

Zheng Li showed a nostalgic look: "The more unknowns there are, the more you know."

"Before magic, would we have thought that there would be an invention in the world that could allow humans to directly affect the material world?"

"makes sense."

Zheng Li set an upper limit for the users of the magic network, which is the maximum level of magic they can release.

In addition, Zheng Li placed a dozen magic wands throughout England. Only the owners of the magic wands could reach the upper limit. Most others could only perform tricks, which could not be considered magic.

Only a few gifted people can use their own consciousness to mobilize greater authority of the magic network.

As for the number of such gifted people, Zheng Li didn't know either.

Wiles had a strong learning ability. After only three days of teaching from Charles, he learned all the magic that Charles mastered.

In his official laboratory, he discovered that if there was no water source around, he could mobilize all the water molecules within a radius of about one kilometer.

All the spherical water molecules with a radius of about one thousand meters with him as the origin were drained.

Gathering into the shape he wants, and then exerting a huge impact force, more powerful than the water column of a fire truck.

If there is water around, it can be more powerful.

Even so, Wiles was unable to summon the water element.

Not to mention the water elements that can walk like humans.

In addition, relevant departments in England are checking the audience and members of the press conference organizers one by one.

While investigating, the video footage of the day is also being reviewed frame by frame, including videos recorded by all the audience members on site.

Because the aggressiveness of the water element shows a very obvious tendency.

England speculated that this magic required someone to continuously control it, or that the water element had a certain level of intelligence.

Rather than believing that the summoned creatures have intelligence, the English side would rather believe and hope that someone is controlling them.

During this period, reporters from all over the world are rushing to London, except for the Chinese media. The Chinese media can wait for foreign reports and just copy them.

The Chinese media don't have to go through the trouble of running to the scene.

Wouldn't it be nice to just copy the RT report? And translate the others' criticism of England's mismanagement, which is a classic way of killing two birds with one stone.

At the same time, Wiles' fellow wizards, whom he had been waiting for for a long time, also arrived in London on the Europa train.

"Hello everyone, I haven't seen you for a few days, and it feels like it's been years."

(End of this chapter)